Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 30a0cb08cb0229a8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.8 KB Created: 2020-08-18 15:09:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 62d884b85b960fd8cfacfbf1954fe431 SHA-1: a9dd9eb6ba32f95a4b5316fddd5d1d34d146a59f SHA-256: 30a0cb08cb0229a8d1fabbefd0c91551288ceed54dd17b9307346816ea9ab82e
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=joseph+coat+of+many+colors+template'. This indicates an attempt to direct users to malicious infrastructure. Additionally, the PDF exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to Shopify domains hosting other PDFs, suggesting a coordinated effort to distribute content or traffic. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same redirector URL and other embedded URLs, reinforcing the malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • Small PDF contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links, mostly clustered on one host. This matches generated SEO/link-farm PDF carriers used to route users into malicious or unwanted-software delivery chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern.
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=joseph+coat+of+many+colors+template In PDF document text
    • http://xawugera.farmcounty.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408100/gawagusizu_kidemafixozuj_tafotavobuxiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dukeguza.jadeguasha.shop/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738731/0353a54140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://roxog.cakesforeveryoccasion.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379326/sekali-topavipe-zubana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.cubatrips.ca/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681812/88e7fedc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3305/0779/files/zerozulilowej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7920/5031/files/65683512212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5669/3397/files/86893445185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0668/0484/files/cambridge_igcse_first_language_english_coursebook_third_edition_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6582/6719/files/83838017852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6888/3098/files/teragavujulusoxapaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5679/9647/files/sukakiwovotaxelexabexatoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7921/8840/files/77170701541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0629/5201/files/nusopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9725/0210/files/predator_228_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5429/3402/files/88457978498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4544/6044/files/divuzegerilitozin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000060f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x60F6 5084 bytes
SHA-256: 37179122eb493c4b3de898e632c02fae95fabcc267775d9cb47a2b86a367ca0d
font_01_sfnt_off0000721b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x721B 9896 bytes
SHA-256: 66408a5643a81c8b92f47281c9e47f53b27d3c6ab7a32af52051298e911369e6
font_02_sfnt_off0000941c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x941C 4324 bytes
SHA-256: a542ec26cea93e049a2e27cd59b1347dd9bbdea13775fd7b822b3c2b3136116f